Love can't fill every need, and love can't make problems vanish. Struggling with her own image and self worth, Esther's secret daily struggle with Anorexia reaches a breaking point.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ana Carolina Borges
Alicia
Olivia Collinge Gawn
Esther
Gustave is a photographer who makes pictures of nude male bodies in public spaces in São Paulo. One night, Pedro goes with him, without yet knowing whether he will be part of the project. This vast city will be witness.
Lily, a girl with a secret on the cusp of becoming a young woman, is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.
Vebjørn (soon to be 30) has never had a girlfriend. He works as a mascot and ski instructor at a skiing resort. One day he crashes into the ski tourist, Polina, ruining her holiday. While he tries to make up for the accident, unexpected chemistry between the two arises. But Vebjørn's anxiety around girls soon catches up with him, as he struggles to get over the idea that no one can like him in a romantic way.
Smile is about a woman in her fifties and how she has to navigate day to day sexism, the fall out of sexual assault and how in the end she decides to fight back.
Tuesday explores a moment when responsibility and culpability share a thin line after a man leaves the scene of an accident and begins to fall apart from the ensuing guilt. Little does he know that there is more to what happened than what he thinks.
Peter takes his British friend Adam on a personal but political tour around Budapest. In an underground club, Adam makes a move at Peter — who now has to come clear with his own feelings.
A mans scheduled plans are set back by a delayed friend, causing an empty hour to be filled with memories relating to a recent loss.
Lucy and Johanna are on their honeymoon. Johanna is partially, and Lucy profoundly, deaf. They arrive at a B&B where they are greeted by a sullen landlady. A seemingly insignificant disagreement silently turns into a hurtful argument, as the noise of the weir dominates the background.
Claudio and Riccardo are forced to share the same apartment and bedroom when their divorced parents decide to live together. But they soon find out that they can be more than brothers. By overcoming their fears and prejudice of the people, they will be free to live as they desire.
Bill is a lonely soul and feels sorry for himself and his life. He shuts people out and is quite unfriendly to everybody. Then one day he receives a phone call from a social worker informing him that his sister died and is asked to look after his sister's daughter Tia. Tia's father is overseas and had separated from her mother so Bill is the next of kin. He reluctantly accepts to look after Tia for a few days. Tia's charm and vitality wins Bill over and he starts to enjoy spending time with her. He starts seeing live in a different light and when the social worker informs him that Tia could now go to her dad overseas. When Tia tells him that she wants to stay with him he dismisses the offer. The last scene shows how they appreciate each other.
After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing apart, as he searches for meaning in the spaces between people and time.
A hustler meets a client in a hotel room but he realizes that the young man needs much more than sex.
Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
Segismundo Morey has spent his last few years facing the challenges imposed by Andrade’s rare disease. This medical condition, which affects his nervous and muscular system, has left a deep mark on his daily life and that of those around him. Over the years, Segismundo has had to overcome physical and emotional obstacles, dealing with difficulties in walking and moving normally. However, despite the constant challenges, he has found comfort and strength in the unconditional love and support of his family. Together, they have faced the adversities of Andrade’s disease, forming an indestructible bond that has been key in their shared journey.
Rosemary’s knack for predicting the future with tea leaves takes a troubling turn when she learns her grandmother is dying.
Ji-eun goes to Min-kyu's house to celebrate their second anniversary with her boyfriend Min-kyu. But Min-kyu notifies Ji-eun of parting. Unable to accept a sudden breakup, Ji-eun starts a strange cohabitation with Mingyu's family without leaving the place.
Hasan Everywhere is an animation which broaches the subtlety of a relationship between a man and a woman who bear the passports of enemies, to sympathetically deal with the subjects of death, grief, lost opportunity; but mostly it seeks to demonstrate the possibility of friendship triumphing over the deepest of rifts between two people. In that regard it is most unusual among the standard fare of animated shorts.
A boy buys earplugs to block out the shouting of his constantly quarreling parents, but his innocent act has tragic results.
The high school multimedia club students aim to win Best Short Film in Cinemalaya Film Festival to avoid dissolution ordered by the school admin.
Rayvenn and Lourenço find themselves in new relationships but will their political differences drive them apart?
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
